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•'82?- ' 2.hat is, about that tine .A.- F-ther has been 1e- -1 about Twenty yeqrs.*, • Your father w , s about odd ye-rs ,)11 when heUed?A•-- No, sir, fithcr I think to be Seventy six yesrs old,the best I can recollect, may be 2eventy ci ~ht.Q. - Your father and his farrily axmlied to Couci1 in theearly Ei ticf , and no action w-,,s t-ken u .til the liteEi lit ?lan't know, I was small, I don't think f-ther made anyQ.- This kkev,T Family male ainlication in the eirly T1 tiesdid not lctipn until the late °Icould not t11, I w -,,s too youne.,.Mr. Norman; I desire to introduce a certificate from the Commissionto the Five Civilized. Tribes showin7 that the nnmes ofAin Askew, B.B.Askew, and Tom V. Askew, annenr unon thefia rolls, of t;(-.: Choctaw Nation. Exhibit "B",Mr Cornish; in reference to this cortific ,ite and all certificatesthat may be introduced, I rresl,r -._e this certificate correctlyreflcotF,: what the records of the Cornrissin show qt thisti, but we hone that it will not be understood that weconsider that thec, e Pcnnons, whose nines a-pne'lr on thesec€o'..ificoteri, ore citizens of the Choctaw Nation. Wefeel that these neonle should have the fnirie Status as theannlicants, and in the event the annlicnnts are 1,,enied, theNations will ,710 all in their power to have their names rernovfii.from the "Rolls".',dtness .excusel.